About Us

Learning and Teaching Enhancement provides staff and student-centred support, advice and guidance to enable quality teaching and meaningful learning.

We work in a highly collaborative and research-informed way, and we value effective communication and staff development.

The University of Northampton Values

Delivering – a student experience of the highest quality.

Entrepreneurial – the commitment to innovation, value for money and financial sustainability.

Valuing – opportunity, diversity, a global perspective, inclusion and equality for all.

Enabling – a culture of empowerment, responsibility, tolerance and excellence.

Leading – enhancing the economic, social, cultural and creative life of those we work with across the world.

Openness – transparency, adaptability, resilience, celebration of success.

Performance – through continuous staff development and investment.

 

Objectives

• Lead or contribute to institution wide initiatives in relation to enhancing learning and teaching.
• Provide a Learning Development service to all students and staff.
• Support evidence-based approaches to learning and teaching enhancement through research and scholarship.
• Recognise and reward those who demonstrate excellence in learning and teaching and in supporting learning.
• Create a Language Centre to support English language for academic purposes.
• Provide an academic CPD framework for all staff – C@N-DO.
• Support staff and students in relation to academic integrity.
• Facilitate learning design approaches to create excellent learning opportunities.

The Learning and Teaching Enhancement team recognises excellence in several ways:

• Associate Professor Programme.
• Innovation Fund.
• Advance HE Fellowships – Associate, Fellow, Senior and Principal Fellows.
• National Teaching Fellowships and CATE Programmes.
• UON Annual Learning and Teaching Conference.
• Publications.